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Dude, the French suck. I have to say I'm down with Mark Twain on this one. Last time I was in Paris, and I literally mean the LAST TIME my mother and I sat in a bistro and listened to an entire table talk about us in French -- dirty Algerians etc etc (although French is our first language, my mother and I speak English together).

The entire culture is run around what is "normale" and what is not. Ni langue est ma langue, n'est ce pas.

I don`t think the French suck. However, I do believe that the French are scared sh*tless with by their growing and somewhat disenchanted Muslim community. The French really have idea how to deal with the issues and grievances of the Muslim community. Therefore in an effort to hopefully slow down the politicalization of some immigrants they have enacted a ban on all religious symbols in schools. I think the Sikh community in France was an afterthought (unfortunately). I don`t see the French swaying on this issue because it is one of a few band-aids they have to contain the fermenting situation in their country.

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Amardeep Singh, Associate Professor of English at Lehigh UniversityOn Twitter

My book, Diaspora Vérité: The Films of Mira Nair, published by the University Press of Mississippi in 2018, is now available on Amazon.

I have been working on several digital projects in Scalar. All are in progress as of January 2019.
One is digital archive I am calling "The Kiplings and India." Working with a team of graduate research assistants, we have been building the site in Scalar here. Feedback welcome; it's a work in progress.

I have also been working on a Digital Collection called "Claude McKay's Early Poetry (1912-1922)" This project began as a collaborative class project called "Harlem Echoes," a digital edition of Claude McKay's "Harlem Shadows." The new version of the project is much-expanded, including McKay's early Jamaican poetry as well as his uncollected political poetry from magazines like The Liberator and Workers Dreadnought.

I also put together a digital edition of Jean Toomer's Cane, taking advantage of the fact that that work is now in the public domain. That project can be found here.